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Title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Author: Alison Bechdel
Description:
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Rationale:
Students in high school are at an age where they are discovering who they are and exploring their relationships with their friends and family. Especially as young students start becoming adults, their relationships with their parents shift along with many other aspects of their life. Bechdel explores these changes in a way that students could relate to. The language is pretty easy for highschoolers, but some of the topics may be mature, so this novel is more suitable for 11th and 12th graders.
"...David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work."
Rationale:
David B.'s work deals with family issues and a teenager dealing with a family that he considers "different." He also delves into his own confusion with who he is and what he is become. High school students are often going through similar issues and will be able to relate to B's work. The language is appropriate for high school readers, but the topics are somewhat mature, so juniors and seniors are a good grade level to use this book.
Themes:
Coming-of-age, Family relationships
Text Complexity:
Accessible language, artwork to help with comprehension.
1. Skim written by Mariko Tamaki, Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki.
2. Blankets by Craig Thompson.
3. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi.
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4. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman.
--Vote: Ben Garcia
5. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. - NPH
6. Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel.
7. Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine.
8. Ghost World by Dan Clowes.
9. Epileptic by David B.
10. Richard Stark's Parker, Vol. 1: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke.
--Descriptions of texts and rationales for their use needed.
--Media links such as Youtube summaries or Teacher Resource Links needed?
Title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Author: Alison Bechdel
Description:
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.Rationale:
Students in high school are at an age where they are discovering who they are and exploring their relationships with their friends and family. Especially as young students start becoming adults, their relationships with their parents shift along with many other aspects of their life. Bechdel explores these changes in a way that students could relate to. The language is pretty easy for highschoolers, but some of the topics may be mature, so this novel is more suitable for 11th and 12th graders.Themes:
Self-exploration, family relationships, sexual orientationText Complexity:
240 pages, accessible language, artwork helps with comprehensionAdditional Resources:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-A-Co/Bechdel-Alison.htmlTitle: Epileptic
Author: David B
Description:
"...David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work."Rationale:
David B.'s work deals with family issues and a teenager dealing with a family that he considers "different." He also delves into his own confusion with who he is and what he is become. High school students are often going through similar issues and will be able to relate to B's work. The language is appropriate for high school readers, but the topics are somewhat mature, so juniors and seniors are a good grade level to use this book.Themes:
Coming-of-age, Family relationshipsText Complexity:
Accessible language, artwork to help with comprehension.1. Skim written by Mariko Tamaki, Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki.
2. Blankets by Craig Thompson.
3. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi.
--Vote: Ben Garcia, SC
4. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman.
--Vote: Ben Garcia
5. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. - NPH
6. Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel.
7. Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine.
8. Ghost World by Dan Clowes.
9. Epileptic by David B.
10. Richard Stark's Parker, Vol. 1: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke.